Re: booting from tomsrbt fails

Aha, it has only 5MB

thanks for the info, i'll have a look at other floppy based things or 
simple look for more MBs

thanks,

Pander

On Sunday, Apr 13, 2003, at 17:59 Europe/Amsterdam, Tom Oehser wrote:

>
> How much memory does the machine have?  It requires 8MB.
>
> If you have less, you may be able to install something like
> slackware from floppies, setting up swapspace, etc.  Tomsrtbt
> is more intended for rescue and recovery of semi-modern systems
> (it will work on a 386 with 8MB, but will boot very slowly).
>
> -Tom
>
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:46:04 +0200
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [tomsrtbt] booting from tomsrbt fails
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When I boot tomsrtbt from an old i386, all goes ok until this
>> bzip2 Uncompressing Linux... aaa
>> after a while it ways
>> bzip2 Uncompressing Linux... aaab
>> and after another while it automatically reboots, is this due to very
>> old hardware?
>>
>> Is there an alternative? Linux for old i386 or something?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pander
>>
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